Bogs self-restore after reduction in power plant emissions

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Top conservation books (and a video): my 2009 holiday list

Everyday I receive emails from publishing houses announcing new books related to conservation. So I though it would be fun to share my own holiday list of top 2009 conservation books I would love to receive as gifts...

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Steep, high, and remote: bias found in the location of protected areas

Researchers conducted a geospatial analysis of protected area networks in 147 countries and found that most were biased towards high elevations, steep slopes, and lands remote from urbanization. These results cast doubt on the value of many of these protected area networks for conservation...

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The negative impact of salvage logging on birds

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Study finds gender of author has no effect on peer-review process

A new study uses a creative experimental design to test whether changing the author gender affects the outcome of the peer review process...

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Avoiding disease outbreaks when reintroducing endangered wildlife

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Ocean rigs as vectors for entire communities of invasive species

Scientists have long recognized marine transport as a vector for exotic species invasions. But relatively little attention has been given to the transport of semi-submersible rigs - the installations that are used for oil drilling...

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Fouled ship hulls not a big risk to freshwater systems

So with all the depressing studies about maritime vessels as a vector for invasive species, new research in the journal Diversity and Distributions offers up some relatively good news about transport in the Great Lakes...

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The value of birds in controlling agricultural pests

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Can carbon trading schemes prevent large-scale extinctions?

Researchers have published an article in the journal Science trying to influence the dialogue in Copenhagen towards a greater focus on biodiversity conservation...read more

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